Smartphone can be used to organize protests.

Oof, what about all the disinformation and basically the breakdown of democratic structures because of it?

Also, union activity. Encrypted chat apps to prevent employers finding out what you are up to. Prevents emplpyers preemptively fireing you before you legally form the union and get legal protection. Make strike-breaking harder.

While encryption is super cool and has been really hard fought for (really interesting stuff) it has not been widely adopted and the data breaches we’ve seen since the entire culture has shifted to existing online are beyond description.

As a tool a smart phone is undeniably remarkable. As a tool to live your daily life it’s kind of underwhelming considering all the implications.